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býdel

Grammar
býdel, l. bydel,
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and add: a herald Hé sende bydelas and beád eallum þám here transierunt praecones per castrorum medium et clamare coeperunt, Jos. 3, 2. a beadle, v. Andrews' Old English Manor. pp. 142-3 Bydel gǽð ætforan déman, Hml.

hildan

(v.)

to bend ⬩ incline

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Take here hyldan in Dict., and add: trans. Ne drinc ðú of þǽre flascan, ac hyld (inclina) þú hí wærlíce, Gr. D. 142, 5. Þá þá hé helde ł bígede cum (membra sopori) dedisset i. inclinasset, An. Ox. 2105. intrans.

Linked entries: hyldan heldan -hilde

CENNAN

(v.)
Grammar
CENNAN, cænnan. cynnan; -nende; de; ed; v. trans.

to beget, conceive, create, bring forth ⬩ gignere, creare, facere, parere ⬩ to bring forth from the mind , to declare, choose, ascribe, clear, prove ⬩ advocare, confiteri, adscribere, purgare, manifestare

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Cenne he hwanon hit him cóme let him declare whence it came to him, L. Eth. ii. 8; Th. i. 288, 14, 21, 22, 23, 25. Gif he cenþ ðæt he hit bohte if he declare that he bought it, L. Edg. S. 10; Th. i. 276, 6.

Linked entries: a-cennan cænnan cænnan cynnan cennend-líc

cellendre

(n.)

coriander

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coriander, Herb. 104, 1; Lchdm. i. 218, 16

fearn-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
fearn-leás, -lés; adj.

Fernless, without fern ⬩ sine fĭlĭce

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Fernless, without fern; sine fĭlĭce, Hem. p. 86

for-wexen

(v.; part.)
Grammar
for-wexen, = for-weaxen pp. of for-weaxan.

overgrown

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overgrown, Herb. 69, 1; Lchdm. i. 172, 7

earfednyme

(n.)

an heir ⬩ hēres

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an heir; hēres, Lk. Skt. Hat. 20, 14

ge-myndiglicnes

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Take here ge-mindiglicnes in Dict. and add:

grambǽrnes

(n.)
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Take here the passage in Dict. under gramfærnys

hiltu

Grammar
hiltu, hilto

lameness

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Take here helto in Dict., and add:

riht-æþelu

(n.)
Grammar
riht-æþelu, riht-æþelo.
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Take here the passage given under riht-aþelo

Linked entry: riht-aþelu

-rún

(suffix)
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Add: v. heáh-, hell-rún: -rúna. l. (-rúne?)

ymb-faru

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Take here the second passage under ymb-fær

íg-land

(n.)
Grammar
íg-land, es ; n.

An island

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And hér sind on ðis íglande fíf geþeóde the island of Britain is eight hundred miles long and two hundred broad. And at present there are five languages in this island, Chr. pref; Erl. 3, 1.

Linked entries: eá-land ég-land

wiþer-saca

(n.)
Grammar
wiþer-saca, an; m.

an adversary ⬩ opponent ⬩ enemy ⬩ a rebel ⬩ an adversary at law ⬩ a prosecutor ⬩ one who renounces ⬩ denies ⬩ apostate

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Gif munuc oþþe mæssepreóst wiðersaca wurðe mid ealle, hé sí ámánsumod ǽfre, búton hé ðe rædlícor gebúge tó his þearfe, L. Eth. ix. 41; Th. i. 348, 31. Iúdas se wiþersaca, Mt. Kmbl. 26, 14: Mk. Skt. 14, 10, 43.

ságol

(n.)
Grammar
ságol, (v. sowel fustis, Wrt. Voc. i. 94, 22, soþsawel veridicus, 90, 19), es; m.
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Hé stafas ł sáhlas ísenne tóbræc vectes ferreos confregit, Ps. Lamb. 106, 16

-waru

(suffix)
Grammar
-waru, a form occurring only in compounds with a collective force, the inhabitants of a place. It is used with common nouns, v. burh-, ceaster-, eorþ-, hell-, heofon-, land-waru; and with proper names, native or foreign, e. g. Lunden-waru, Chr. 1016 ; Erl. 159, 22: Hierosolim-waru
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Hierosolyma, Mt. Kmbl. 3, 5 ; Sychem-ware Sicinorum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, 66

Linked entry: wara

bródig

(adj.)
Grammar
bródig, adj.
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BROODY, brooding; incubans Bródige henne a broody hen, Bridf

ge-sǽtnian

(v.)
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Take here ge-setnian (l. ge-sétnian) in Dict

Linked entry: sǽtnian

sliccan

(v.)
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The passages here may be taken to sleán; I

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